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MISSIONARY  AND 
SPIRITUAL  MOVE¬ 
MENTS  IN  AMERICA 
AND  GREAT  BRITAIN 


An  address  delivered  by 

S.  EARL  TAYLOR  AT  THE 
PRESIDING  ELDERS-  MEETING, 
OCEAN  GROVE,  AUGUST  30,  1905 


OPEN  DOOR  COMMISSION 
MISSIONARY  SOCIETY 
METHODIST  EPISCOPAL  CHURCH 
150  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York 


MISSIONARY  AND  SPIRITUAL 
MOVEMENTS  IN  AMERICA 
AND  GREAT  BRITAIN 


MERICA  and  Great  Britain  are 
closely  related  by  ties  of  history, 
by  ties  of  commerce,  by  ties  of 
religion,  by  ties  of  language,  by 
ties  of  national  and  political  in¬ 
terest,  and  by  ties  of  blood  relationship.  It  is 
not  strange,  therefore,  that  missionary  and 
spiritual  movements  in  these  two  countries 
should  act  and  react.  It  is  not  necessary  to 
go  back  to  the  time  of  Wesley  and  to  colonial 
days  in  New  England  for  illustrations  of  this 
fact.  In  recent  years  scores  of  evangelists  and 
leading  Christian  workers  from  Great  Britain 
have  been  in  America,  and  America  has  sent 
to  Great  Britain  her  full  quota.  The  Welsh 
revival  has  affected  Great  Britain  profoundly, 
but  it  has  also  affected  America,  and  it  has 
been  almost  as  fully  reported  in  our  religious 
press  as  it  has  been  reported  on  the  other  side 
of  the  water. 

As  to  Christian  missions,  it  may  be  said 
that  in  a  peculiar  way  the  burden  of  the  evan¬ 
gelization  of  the  world  rests  upon  America 
and  Great  Britain.  To  these  two  countries 
has  been  given  in  large  measure  the  wealth  of 


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the  world.  In  the  providence  of  God  the 
veins  and  mines  of  gold  in  Australia  (formerly 
New  Netherlands)  and  in  South  Africa  were 
withheld  from  the  eyes  of  men  until  these 
countries  came  under  the  control  of  a  Protes¬ 
tant  and  an  English-speaking  people.  The 
gold  on  the  Pacific  Coast  was  not  discovered 
by  the  Spaniard  and  the  gold  in  Alaska  by 
the  Russian,  but  these  vast  sources  of  wealth 
were  reserved  for  Protestant  America.  Why 
is  it  that  God  has  so  marvelously  prospered 
these  nations  in  the  development  of  trade  and 
international  commerce?  Surely  God  has 
given  to  America  and  Great  Britain  their  full 
share  of  the  wealth  of  the  world,  and  it  is  not 
strange,  therefore,  that  of  the  total  amount 
given  to  foreign  missions  about  forty  per  cent 
is  given  by  America,  forty  per  cent  by  Great 
Britain,  two  per  cent  by  the  British  colonies, 
and  the  balance  by  the  rest  of  the  world.  It 
is  only  within  the  past  two  or  three  years  that 
America  has  approximately  equaled  Great 
Britain  in  the  amount  given  to  foreign  missions, 
and  these  countries  now  seem  destined  to  go 
side  by  side  in  friendly  competition  for  the 
honor  of  contributing  the  largest  sums  for 
world  evangelization.  Not  only  do  these  na¬ 
tions  have  the  wealth,  but  they  have  dominion 
also.  “Out  of  a  total  area  of  fifty-two  mil¬ 
lions  of  square  miles  for  the  whole  world,  the 
British  empire  embraces  twelve  millions,  some¬ 
what  less  than  one  fourth,  and  of  a  total  popu¬ 
lation  of  1 ,500,000,000  (allowing  a  liberal 


John,  jp.  qou 


in  America  and  Great 


’**'•*« jit 


estimate  of  650,000,000  for  peoples  not 
brought  under  any  census),  the  proportion  is 
somewhat  in  excess  of  one  fourth.”  If  you 
add  to  the  immense  territorial  holding  of  Great 
Britain  the  territory  under  the  flag  of  the 
United  States,  and  if  more  especially  you  con¬ 
sider  the  tremendous  political  influence  of  these 
two  countries  with  nations  that  are  not  im¬ 
mediately  under  their  respective  flags,  it  is 
easy  to  see  that  God  has  in  a  very  special  way 
prepared  the  English-speaking  people,  as  no 
other  people  have  been  prepared,  for  the  work 
of  extending  the  kingdom  of  Jesus  Christ  to 
the  ends  of  the  earth.  Yes,  these  countries 
have  wealth  and  dominion,  and  they  are  also 
the  strongholds  of  Protestant  and  evangelical 
faith.  To  one,  therefore,  who  has  a  vision 
which  reaches  beyond  the  confines  of  his  local 
church,  or  his  town,  or  his  state,  or  his  coun¬ 
try;  to  one  who  has  a  world  vision  and  who 
prays  and  works  for  the  world-wide  extension 
of  the  kingdom  of  Jesus  Christ,  there  must 
come  a  feeling  of  concern  for  the  welfare  of  the 
spiritual  and  missionary  interests  in  Great 
Britain  and  America.  If  one  country  lags  be¬ 
hind  it  must  be  a  concern  to  the  other.  If  one 
has  developed  more  effective  methods  it  is  in 
duty  bound  to  pass  these  methods  on  to  the 
other.  If  one  has  received  a  great  spiritual 
blessing  it  must  seek  to  pass  that  blessing  on 
to  the  other.  What,  then,  is  the  general  situa¬ 
tion  in  Great  Britain  and  in  America? 

In  the  first  place,  with  regard  to  missions  it 


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may  be  said  that  in  both  countries  the  Mis¬ 
sionary  Societies  are  face  to  face  with  what 
seem  to  be  boundless  opportunities  in  almost 
every  mission  field.  In  the  providence  of  God 
the  doors  of  opportunity  have  opened  wide, 
and  everywhere  the  mission  fields  are  “white 
to  harvest.’’  In  the  second  place,  in  both 
countries  the  missionary  societies  are  unable 
to  harvest  the  fields  in  an  adequate  way  for 
lack  of  funds.  Every  leading  missionary  so¬ 
ciety  of  Great  Britain  has  had  during  the  past 
year  to  face  a  serious  deficit,  and  while  most 
of  the  American  societies  have  had  no  deficit, 
the  secretaries  of  five  or  six  of  the  leading  mis¬ 
sionary  societies  in  America  have  within  the 
past  two  months  put  into  writing  statements 
to  the  effect  that  there  must  be  an  immediate 
increase  in  contributions  of  from  fifteen  to  fifty 
per  cent  if  they  are  to  adequately  care  for  the 
work  for  which  they  have  already  accepted 
responsibility,  to  say  nothing  about  entering 
new  fields  which  seem  to  be  providentially 
opened  to  them.  At  the  Cleveland  Conven¬ 
tion  Bishop  Fowler  said:  “When  God  opens 
a  door  before  a  people  that  is  his  command 
to  them  to  enter,  and  his  promise  to  back  them 
to  the  extent  of  his  resources.  .  .  .  When¬ 
ever  a  people  sees  God’s  beckoning  hand  and 
hears  his  call  and  is  obedient  to  the  heavenly 
vision,  then  they  rise  to  higher  levels,  take  up 
heavier  burdens,  achieve  greater  results,  and 
reap  wider  harvests  for  God.  But  whenever 
through  fear  or  selfishness  or  diversion  they 


in  America  and  Great  Britain 


hesitate  and  doubt,  then  they  see  some  braver 
people  step  to  the  front  and  take  the  place 
which  they  might  have  had.” 

It  is  evident  that  at  the  present  rate  of  prog¬ 
ress  the  missionary  societies  will  not  be  able  to 
enter  the  open  doors.  The  Missionary  Society 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  has  prob¬ 
ably  had  during  the  past  three  years  the  largest 
increase  in  its  regular  contributions  of  any 
missionary  society  in  the  world,  and  ‘‘the 
people  called  Methodists”  have  great  reason 
for  encouragement,  but  no  one  who  under¬ 
stands  the  needs  of  our  mission  fields  at  home 
and  abroad  would  dream  for  a  moment  that 
the  splendid  advance  which  has  been  made  is 
adequate  to  meet  the  urgent  needs  of  the  case. 
If  one  will  attend  the  sessions  of  the  General 
Missionary  Committee  for  a  week  he  will 
become  convinced  to  his  entire  satisfaction 
that  the  present  income  is  utterly  inadequate. 

What,  then,  is  to  be  done  with  regard  to 
world  evangelism?  In  Great  Britain  and  in 
America  this  is  evidently  a  time  of  crisis  for 
missions.  The  church  has  accustomed  her¬ 
self  to  think  of  a  slight  increase  for  each  suc¬ 
ceeding  year  and,  notwithstanding  the  rapid 
accumulation  of  wealth,  is  fairly  well  satisfied 
to  increase  her  per  capita  gift  a  few  pennies 
in  a  decade,  whereas,  in  the  providence  of 
God,  she  finds  herself  face  to  face  wth  oppor¬ 
tunities  which  require  a  doubling  or  a  trebling 
or  a  quadrupling  of  her  offering  to  missions. 
The  wisest  leaders  of  the  church  are  seeking 


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for  a  solution  of  the  problem.  There  are  some 
who  feel  that  the  need  of  the  hour  is  a  great 
spiritual  awakening,  and  until  that  time  comes 
there  is  very  little  need  of  attempting  greater 
things.  There  are  others  who  feel  that  the 
church  is  not  wrong  at  heart,  but  that  if  it  has 
the  information  it  will  give  adequately.  An 
increasing  number  believe  that  the  need  of  the 
hour  is  a  combination  of  a  great  educational 
campaign  and  a  mighty  spiritual  awakening. 

Whatever  the  solution  may  be,  the  leaders 
are  more  and  more  turning  their  eyes  to  the 
on-coming  host  of  the  young,  who  are  a  su¬ 
premely  important  factor  to-day  and  who  to¬ 
morrow  will  be  in  the  thick  of  the  fight.  In 
England  and  in  America  there  are  enrolled  in 
the  Sunday  schools  and  young  people’s  socie¬ 
ties  not  less  than  twenty-one  million  children 
and  young  people.  In  other  words,  the  army 
of  the  young  enrolled  under  the  banners  of 
Jesus  Christ  in  these  two  countries  is  nearly 
three  times  as  large  as  the  standing  armies  of 
the  civilized  world,  including  the  immense 
army  of  over  four  million  accredited  to  Russia. 
Because,  therefore,  of  the  very  size  of  the 
army,  because  of  the  impressionability  of  the 
young  people,  because  of  their  present  and 
future  possibilities  in  the  giving  of  life  and 
money,  and  because  of  their  high  poten¬ 
tiality  in  prayer,  the  church  is  giving  increas¬ 
ing  attention  to  their  spiritual  development, 
and  Bible  study  and  mission  study  courses  are 
multiplying. 


in  America  and  Great  Britain 


It  is  evident  that  ordinary  methods  and 
ordinary  rates  of  increase  in  membership  and 
in  giving  will  not  suffice.  The  time  has  come 
for  the  extraordinary,  and  it  is  probable  that 
this  will  come  only  through  a  special  outpour¬ 
ing  of  the  Spirit  of  God  in  answer  to  prayer. 
Is  it  not  true  that  the  great  need  of  the  hour  is 
for  an  ever-increasing  volume  of  intercessory 
prayer,  not  only  that  laborers  may  be  thrust 
forth  into  the  harvest,  but  that  the  church  may 
be  profoundly  stirred  to  do  its  full  duty  for 
the  cause  of  world  evangelism,  and  that  there 
may  be  such  an  outpouring  of  the  Holy  Spirit 
as  that  we  may  experience  in  this  country  such 
revivals  of  pure  and  undefiled  religion  as  have 
not  been  seen  since  apostolic  days.  It  will  not 
suffice  to  sit  down  and  criticise  existing  plans 
and  organizations  and  existing  methods.  The 
great  missionary  societies  of  the  world  have 
been  built  up  by  years  of  most  careful  experi¬ 
mentation,  and  the  able  leaders  of  these  socie¬ 
ties  have  spent  much  time  in  anxious  consid¬ 
eration  of  ways  and  means  for  more  thoroughly 
arousing  the  churches.  Has  not  the  time  come 
for  sympathetic,  aggressive,  and  prayerful  co¬ 
operation  on  the  part  of  all  who  believe  in, 
and  work  for,  the  evangelization  of  the  world? 
If  we  look  at  the  difficulties  which  are  to  be 
encountered  in  thoroughly  arousing  the 
churches  of  the  English-speaking  and  Protes¬ 
tant  world,  we  may  become  discouraged,  but 
if  we  look  to  the  omnipotent  God  and  remem¬ 
ber  what  he  has  done  during  the  past  century 


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in  breaking  down  the  barriers  and  in  preparing 
the  way,  may  we  not  read  with  new  courage 
the  challenge  of  the  Almighty  which  is  found 
in  the  thirty-second  chapter  of  Jeremiah:  “Be¬ 
hold,  I  am  the  Lord,  the  God  of  all  flesh:  is 
there  anything  too  hard  for  me?” 

But  what  of  the  great  spiritual  awakening 
which  will  unquestionably  precede  or  accom¬ 
pany  the  missionary  revival?  There  are  signs 
of  promise  in  America.  Last  winter  in  many 
of  the  great  cities  there  were  seasons  of  great 
refreshing,  and  during  the  past  summer  at 
Ocean  Grove  and  in  other  places  revival  move¬ 
ments  have  been  reported,  but  as  yet  we  have 
nothing  to  approach  the  spirit  of  prayer  and 
the  spirit  of  expectancy  which  one  finds  every¬ 
where  in  Great  Britain.  There  is  no  question 
but  that  the  revival  movement  is  on  in  England 
and  in  Wales  and  that  it  is  beginning  to  affect 
Scotland  and  Ireland.  You  feel  the  impulse 
of  the  Welsh  revival  almost  as  soon  as  you  set 
foot  on  English  soil.  I  was  not  able  to  visit 
Wales,  and  so  did  not  see  the  work  in  active 
progress,  but  for  that  very  reason  I  was  per¬ 
haps  able  to  judge  better  of  its  influence  out¬ 
side  of  Wales.  The  following  incidents  are 
illustrative  of  everyday  experiences:  As  I  was 
entering  the  room  to  deliver  the  first  address  in 
Great  Britain  at  the  Nonconformist  Summer 
School  a  stranger  put  his  arm  about  me  and 
said,  “Mr.  Taylor,  I  have  been  praying  and 
shall  continue  to  pray  to-night  that  God  may 
especially  empower  you  for  service  in  Great 


in  America  and  Great  Britain 


Britain  by  an  outpouring  of  his  Spirit.”  I 
looked  into  his  face  and  saw  that  it  shone  with 
an  unearthly  light,  and  I  said  to  him,  ‘‘You 
have  been  in  the  Welsh  revival.”  He  said, 
‘‘Yes,  I  have  just  come  from  Wales.”  I  went 
rowing  with  a  party  of  young  people  on  beau¬ 
tiful  Derwentwater,  the  lake  on  which  Kes¬ 
wick  is  situated.  A  young  lady  in  the  party, 
light-hearted  and  care-free,  left  us,  intending 
to  make  a  brief  call  at  a  farmhouse  near  at 
hand,  and  after  an  extended  absence  she  came 
back  with  changed  countenance.  We  asked 
her  if  anything  serious  had  happened.  She 
said  there  were  two  Welsh  evangelists  who 
were  conducting  a  revival  service  in  that  little 
farmhouse,  and  the  girl  was  not  the  same  girl 
again  during  my  visit,  because  she  had  visited 
that  Welsh  prayer  meeting.  I  had  the  privi¬ 
lege  of  speaking  to  a  large  company  of  Oxford 
and  Cambridge  undergraduates.  They  were 
being  entertained  by  a  wealthy  lady.  During 
the  dinner  hour,  although  they  were  as  full  of 
life  as  any  group  of  college  men  you  would 
ordinarily  meet,  the  whole  conversation  of  the 
hour  was  concerning  the  Welsh  revival,  the 
Torrey- Alexander  meetings,  and  the  great 
spiritual  awakening  in  Oxford  and  Cambridge 
in  connection  with  the  visits  of  Mr.  John  R. 
Mott  last  winter.  As  one  incident  of  the  con¬ 
versation,  the  hostess  related  that  she  had  re¬ 
cently  attended  a  remarkable  prayer  meeting 
in  Wales.  At  six-thirty  o’clock  in  the  morning 
she  had  gone  with  friends  down  into  a  coal 


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mine,  and  as  the  party  took  their  places  they 
heard  coming  up  through  the  corridors  the 
sound  of  men  singing  the  Welsh  revival  hymns. 
Soon  the  miners,  with  lamps  on  their  heads, 
came  and  seated  themselves  in  that  dark  cav¬ 
ern  of  the  earth.  The  men  of  the  night  shift 
had  been  permitted  to  quit  a  half  hour  earlier, 
and  the  men  of  the  day  shift  had  come  half  an 
hour  ahead  of  time  in  order  that  they  might 
have  a  prayer  meeting  at  that  early  hour.  As 
they  came  singing  through  the  corridors  of  the 
mine  the  lady,  a  member  of  the  Church  of 
England,  said  it  was  the  stateliest  and  most 
inspiring  processional  she  had  ever  heard. 

The  Welsh  revival  is  still  in  progress.  Up 
to  April  1,  1905,  the  names  of  over  eighty- 
five  thousand  people  had  been  tabulated  by 
the  secular  press  as  having  been  converted  in 
the  Welsh  revival  alone.  Just  before  sailing 
from  Liverpool,  late  in  July,  I  read  in  the  press 
the  accounts  of  great  open-air  meetings  where 
ten  thousand  people  were  assembled  in  the 
fields  and  where  God  was  bowing  the  assem¬ 
blage  as  a  field  of  wheat  is  bowed  by  the 
breath  of  the  wind. 

The  Torrey- Alexander  meetings  are  another 
factor  in  the  spiritual  awakening  in  Great 
Britain.  The  latest  meeting  of  the  London 
series  closed  on  the  day  of  my  arrival  in  that 
city.  During  the  three  weeks  which  followed 
I  had  opportunity  to  meet  people  of  all  de¬ 
nominations  and  of  all  classes,  and  everywhere 
I  went  I  heard  of  the  Torrey- Alexander  meet- 


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ings,  and,  better  still,  I  saw  evidences  of  the 
results.  The  London  evangelistic  campaign, 
conducted  by  a  strong  committee  in  connection 
with  the  visit  of  these  men,  was  probably  one 
of  the  most  notable  and  most  extensive  ever 
undertaken  in  Great  Britain.  It  involved  the 
erection  of  special  buildings  for  the  mission, 
the  circulation  of  five  million  invitations,  a 
house-to-house  canvass  which  reached  a  half 
million  people;  it  involved  two  hundred  great 
meetings,  many  of  them  in  the  Royal  Albert 
Hall,  seating  ten  thousand  people  (it  is  con¬ 
sidered  to  be  a  notable  thing  to  fill  this  great 
hall  for  a  single  night  for  a  political  meeting, 
but  the  Torrey- Alexander  meeting  filled  it  for 
night  after  night  and  thousands  were  turned 
away)  ;  it  involved  the  delivery  of  the  gospel 
message  to  over  a  million  and  a  quarter  of 
people  who  attended  the  meetings;  it  required 
the  expenditure  of  nearly  a  hundred  thousand 
dollars  in  the  great  campaign,  but  it  resulted 
in  nearly  fourteen  thousand  conversions. 

If  I  should  be  asked  what  is  the  secret  of 
the  remarkable  spiritual  awakening  in  Great 
Britain  I  would  unquestionably  say  that  prayer 
has  been  preparing  God’s  people  for  an  out¬ 
pouring  of  the  Spirit  of  God  in  pentecostal 
power.  The  verse  most  frequently  read  in 
connection  with  the  meetings  which  I  attended 
in  England  was  Acts  1.8:  “Ye  shall  receive 
power,  after  that  the  Holy  Ghost  is  come  upon 
you:  and  ye  shall  be  witnesses  unto  me  both 
in  Jerusalem,  and  in  all  Judea,  and  in  Sa- 


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maria,  and  unto  the  uttermost  part  of  the 
earth.’* 

Mrs.  Penn-Lewis  in  a  recent  book  entitled 
The  Awakening  in  Wales  calls  attention  to 
the  fact  that  the  Welsh  revival  was  born  in 
prayer  and  is  being  carried  forward  in  a  spirit 
of  prayer.  The  following  are  among  the 
many  indications  that  she  has  been  able  to 
trace  the  source  of  this  mighty  stream : 

“In  1  901  the  Lord  drew  near  to  one  of  his 
servants  in  the  ministry,  and  gave  him  such  a 
revelation  of  his  glory  that  he  cried,  like  Isaiah, 
‘Woe  is  me,’  and  entered  on  a  life  in  God 
unknown  before.  Then,  in  a  quiet  spot  on  the 
banks  of  a  Welsh  river,  burdened  over  the 
spiritual  condition  of  the  country,  he  spent 
hours  in  prayer,  pleading  with  God  with  many 
tears  that  he  would  come  forth  in  power  and 
work  in  the  land.  Again,  in  a  quiet  town  in 
the  western  part  of  Wales,  we  hear  of  two 
and  three  women  meeting  together  for  prayer 
during  several  years,  pleading  for  ‘revival’ 
among  the  women  of  the  town. 

“We  go  to  the  Rhondda  Valley,  where 
afterward  the  Spirit  of  God  swept  with  great 
power,  and  hear  of  some  who  for  years  had 
been  pleading  for  a  revival  which  should 
‘sweep  over  the  whole  world.’  We  do  not 
wonder  that  such  souls  are  taken  into  the 
secrets  of  God,  the  Holy  Spirit  saying  to  one 
of  them  just  three  days  before  the  valley  was 
moved  by  the  mighty  tide  of  life,  ‘Get  thee  up, 
.  .  .  there  is  the  sound  of  abundance  of  rain.* 


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“We  find  in  Monmouthshire  the  hand  of 
the  Lord  upon  two  sisters,  one  an  invalid, 
who,  during  1903-04,  were  burdened  over 
the  prevalence  of  sin  and  the  increase  of  crime 
in  the  county,  one  sister  saying  tearfully,  ‘I 
cannot  sleep  day  nor  night  because  my  dear 
Lord  is  despised  and  set  at  naught.’  Another 
child  of  God — a  retiring,  timid  lady — be¬ 
moaning  the  deadness  of  the  churches,  said, 
‘I  shall  die  unless  God  exerts  his  power  and 
sends  a  revival!’  ’’ 

As  the  Welsh  revival  was  born  in  prayer, 
so  too  was  the  Torrey- Alexander  Mission. 
Long  before  any  plan  had  been  made  for  such 
a  tour  a  company  of  men  and  women  were 
accustomed  to  meet  on  Saturday  night,  in  the 
Moody  Bible  Institute  in  Chicago,  to  pray  for 
a  world-wide  outpouring  of  the  Spirit  of  God. 
One  night  Mr.  Torrey  was  moved  to  say  in 
connection  with  that  prayer  meeting  that  he  be¬ 
lieved  God  had  called  him  to  begin  a  world¬ 
wide  campaign.  This  was  on  Saturday.  On 
Monday  he  was  met  by  two  business  men 
who,  it  is  said,  knew  nothing  about  the  meet¬ 
ing  of  Saturday  night.  They  told  him  that 
they  felt  moved  of  God  to  suggest  that  he 
undertake  a  world  tour  and  that  they  would 
help  him  to  finance  the  campaign.  In  con¬ 
junction  with  these  events  came  an  invitation 
from  Australia,  where  for  eleven  years  a  band 
of  ministers  and  laymen  had  met  to  plead  with 
God  for  a  “big  revival’’;  and  so  from  one 
praying  band  in  Australia  came  an  invitation 


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to  the  leader  of  another  praying  band  in  Amer¬ 
ica  and  the  mission  began.  It  is  not  strange, 
therefore,  that  the  story  of  the  triumphs  of  that 
tour  which  has  now  extended  around  the 
world  should  read  like  a  story  of  apostolic 
days.  The  motto  of  the  Torrey- Alexander 
meetings  was  written  in  Dr.  Torrey’s  own 
handwriting  and  reproduced  in  facsimile  to  be 
hung  in  the  homes  of  the  people  connected 
with  the  movement,  and  this  is  what  he  says: 
“Pray  for  great  things.  Expect  great  things. 
Work  for  great  things;  but  above  all,  pray.” 

God  is  able  to  do  greater  things  for  Amer¬ 
ica  than  he  has  done  for  Wales.  “We  have 
an  advocate  with  the  Father,  Jesus  Christ  the 
righteous:  and  he  is  the  propitiation  for  our 
sins:  and  not  for  ours  only,  but  also  for  the 
sins  of  the  whole  world.”  And  he  has  said, 
“All  power  is  given  unto  me  in  heaven  and  in 
earth.  .  .  .  And,  lo,  I  am  with  you  alway, 
even  unto  the  end  of  the  world.”  And  it  was 
our  Lord  himself  who  also  said,  “Verily, 
verily,  I  say  unto  you.  He  that  believeth  on 
me,  the  works  that  I  do  shall  he  do  also;  and 
greater  works  than  these  shall  he  do;  because 
I  go  unto  my  Father.” 


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